Education Notes: Unity Elementary names Students of the Month

From Staff Reports
education@newnan.com
Unity Elementary School in Luthersville has named its Students of the Month for November. Students receiving the honor were:
Fifth grade – Justin Brown, Henry Clark and Harrison Hayes.

Wilson, who is a junior studio art major with a concentration in museum studies, worked with Mark Redman to inventory the collection of art and other materials from the career of his late father, Lenn Redman. During his 50+-year career Redman created hundreds of thousands of caricatures for celebrities and others, promoted his caricature performances on television and radio, and contributed to the creation of numerous animation features of the 1960s and ‘70s.

Her partner on the project was Mekenna Cipres, a senior from Murietta, Calif. The two helped Mark Redman analyze and catalog boxes and boxes of materials from his father’s career, which jumped genres from cartoons to more traditional paintings, and pick pieces for the first public showing of the work at Brenau. The show, which closed Oct. 28 after a successful run which brought several hundred visitors to the Brenau’s Leo Castelli Gallery, was one of the featured exhibitions that occur each year in the three galleries on the Gainesville, Ga., campus.

“It is not overstating the case that these students were instrumental in helping to ‘rescue’ a remarkable collection that basically was ‘lost’ in mountains of materials in storage boxes,” said Brenau Galleries Director Melissa Morgan.

Rosemary Dodd, a Gainesville, Ga., artist and the widow of “Mark Trail” newspaper comic series author/illustrator Ed Dodd, suggested that Mark Redman enlist the support of the Brenau art department and Brenau Galleries personnel in figuring out what to do with his father’s work.

Wilson, the daughter of the daughter of Meredith and Reagan Wilson of Newnan, graduated from The Heritage School. In addition to her extracurricular work on the art exhibition, she vice president of recruitment for Alpha Chi Omega sorority and the president of Kappa Pi, the art honors fraternity. She is also on the dean’s list academically.

• Basic computer classes offered at Newnan Center

The University of West Georgia’s Continuing Education Department is offering computer classes at the Newnan Center campus on Solar Circle in Newnan.

Offerings include:

• PowerPoint 2010 Basic Course – Friday, Nov. 16 from 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. This course is being offered at the basic level for attendees with limited knowledge of PowerPoint 2010. The goal is for the student to become proficient in getting started with PowerPoint, creating a basic presentation, formatting text on slides, adding graphic objects to a presentation, working with tables, importing charts, WordArt, and preparing to deliver a presentation.

• Access 2010 Basic Course – Friday, Dec. 14 from 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m. This course is being offered at the basic level for attendees with limited knowledge of Access 2010.

Cost is $95 per class and registration is available by mail, phone, fax or online. For more information or to register, visit www.uwgce.com or call 678-839-6611.